The philosophes were the energetic French thinkers of the Enlightenment. ... His "Letters of the English" openly praised the virtues of the English, and at the same time indirectly criticized his own cruel French society. ... Discuss the social impact (the effect on daily life) of the Industrial Revolution. ... But these poor women were still negatively affected by the Industrial Revolution. ... Today women live with the social consequences of the Industrial Revolution. ...

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The Enlightenment encouraged several revolutions and helped governments. It influenced the American Revolution and then the French revolutions. ... France had three estates, the first, second and third. ... It applies to every major argument held in France. ... It influenced the American Revolution, the French Revolution, and the Scientific Revolution. ...

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During the American Revolution John Adams deliberated the reasons and worth of the fight. ... At this time in the American Revolution only a few colonies with militias fighting against the British. ... Before the American Revolution, the American colonists and the British army fought together in the French and Indian War. ... The colonists were angry that Britain had given the land that they couldn't settle in, back to the French. ... The French now had the same resources and profitable goods that the colonies had, the Americans now had to compete for customers with France. ...

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Following the years of the American Revolution, the British, with its superior navy, ruled the Atlantic. ... All U.S. ports were closed to French privateers. ... The French themselves were in a state of Revolution, and the United States had not committed themselves to aiding the fight to reconstruct the nation. Jay's treaty was viewed as an Anglo-American alliance by the new French government. ... After the Revolution, he was sent to Pennsylvania to settle land disputes with Connecticut. ...

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Simultaneously, Edmond Charles Genet was sent to the United States as a special representative from France to implore support in the French Revolution. ... Genet had copiously essayed to obtain American support in the French Revolution, and in accordance with America's foreign policy, Washington vehemently resisted any involvement in war. ... The French began attacking American shipping because they were agitated by the Jay Treaty. ... Talleyrand, the French foreign minister, sent an agent, later called X, to demand that the Americans pay tributes to France. He also stated that...

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In the book, "The Glorious Cause" written by Robert Middlekauff, it is said that the seeds of the American Revolution were planted before the war even started. ... It was apparent the revolution had started. ... Soon after the aforementioned battles the Spanish and French stepped in and gave the Americans a helping hand. ... Because of the help of the French and Spanish the colonists were able to hold off the British and win their independence. Who would have thought that the rebel, hell-raising colonists that founded our country would be able to successfully hold of the British and acquire...

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Smattering of French and some contact with English Classics. ... Jefferson and the American Revolution: A. approved the revolution New motto for Jefferson "Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God." ... Stopped short of actually proposing a revolution. ... Sent as representative of the United States in France, replacing Ben Franklin as US Ambassador. on July 5, 1784 he sailed to France. ... Constitution was drafted when he was in France, however he fallow it . ...

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This area was returned to Spain when the British signed the second Treaty of Paris on September 3, 1783, which concluded the American Revolution and recognized the former 13 colonies as the free and sovereign United States of America. That same day Great Britain also signed separate treaties with France, an ally of the U.S., and Spain, an ally of France (Crawely 123-127). ... Louisiana was of diminishing importance to France. ... What about the French in Louisiana? ... He saw what America could and has become with the addition of the territory; he knew it was essential in order for the Unit...

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The ideas behind the revolution mainly about the proclamation, Britain's financial problem's and so on. ... It was dealing with Britain and France how they was going against each other and going with the wars. ... These problems had spreader through the Revolution war and so on. ... So they had leaders of older regions helping them out to fight against the federalist people the revolution part of anti-federalist. ...

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" Great Britain and France had been intermittently at war since 1793. ... British did this by blockading the French coast and in 1807 it passed the Orders in Council, which required neutral countries to obtain a license before trading with France. Napoleon, and the French responded by blockading the British coast, through the Continental System. American ships caught in these blockades were taken for use by both the British and French navy's and by 1812 Britain had taken a 1000 American ships and the French had taken 500. ... Madison agreed with Congress and believed that it was eit...

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With the ongoing battles between Great Britain and France in the early 19th century, the newly formed United States found itself thrust in the middle of this struggle. ... The Embargo Act seriously harmed the U.S. economy and failed to alter belligerent policies, so it was replaced in 1809 by the Non-Intercourse Act, which provided that Americans could now trade with all nations except Britain and France. In 1810 Macon's Bill No. 2 reopened American trade with all nations, including France and Britain as long as the respects U.S. neutral rights and stop seizing ships. ... The American ...

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Adams also believed in a unified country that was able to defend themselves against France who possessed much of what is now the United States. He believed in a unified relationship with Britain so that they could work together to help control France (Walsh 2008). ... He showed the people that France did own a great deal of land, but they could not defend that land and they really had little interest in it. ... Thomas Jefferson worked to unite the country and tried to not focus on the different political parties and went on to his term of presidency after this great an influential election w...

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Adams and Congress had to prepare for war; meanwhile the French seized American ships. This added on to the threats and actions the French had already made and took. ... Adams then damaged any chance he had of reelection by opening up negotiations with France in 1800. ... The Macon's Bill No. 2 was passed, which basically reversed the ban of trade with France and Britain. ... A large portion of the New England, Mid-Atlantic, and Northwest became an interdependent, self-supporting society and this became known as the "market revolution" and at the same time, a middle class was ...

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Took an active part in events that lead to the American Revolution. 1776- Jefferson took his seat in Congress as an elected delegate and wrote the Declaration of Independence. ... Louisiana Purchase (1803)- The Louisiana Territory was purchased for 15 million dollars from France. ... Created as a short-term measure to prevent confrontation between American merchant vessels and British and French warships and to put pressure on France and England. ... Reopened trade with all nations except Britain and France, and authorized the president to resume trade with Britain or France if eith...

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After being elected into office in 1789, one of George Washington's priorities as President of the United States was to select a cabinet. Washington waited to make his selections as Congress created the departments of Treasury, War, and State. His choices were based on talent and experience, not o...

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Gouverneur Morris was an American statesman and diplomat, and one of the most important authors of the U.S. Constitution. He was born January 31, 1752, at Morrisiana estate, in Westchester County, NY, in 1752. He lived in a wealthy family of Loyalists. He had a half brother, named Lewis, who sig...

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His mother was Rachel Fawcette, daughter of a Protestant French Planter and physician. ... At the end of the Revolution, Hamilton went and studied law in Albany, New York. ... Hamilton submitted a report to Congress in 1790 on the public credit that supplied for the funding of international and national debts of the United States, along with the assumption of the state's debts of the revolution. ... In 1798, when war with France seemed eminent President John Adams appointed Hamilton reluctantly at the insistence of George Washington. ...

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Revolution against Great Britain was on the minds of many, including his cousin, Samuel Adams, a leader of this uprising. ... John Quincy attended some of the finest schools during his stay in Europe, learning much French and continuing reading extensively. ... Adams believed that liberty had been won by the American Revolution and that this liberty was guaranteed by the Constitution. ...

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Property tax was used in part to fund the American Revolution, but it was put on all the property you owned, your horses, cows, corn, on slaves in the south and the value of your house, but usually not at all on your land. Two generations after the American Revolution in 1818, Illinois became the very first state to levy an equalized standardized property tax, on land across the entire state. ... When Thomas Jefferson was president, his old friend Markety Laffette, asked him to translate a book on economics by a French economist named Disweth Lasw. ...

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Washington's political and military career began as early as 1754 when he participated in the French and Indian War as a leader of a Virginia regiment. ... (p. 98) Laboring against great difficulties, he created the Continental Army, which fought and won the American Revolution (1775-1783), out of what was little more than an armed mob. ... (p.105) He traveled to France on several occasions to correspond between the two countries during the war. ...

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Statue of Liberty Architect: Frederic Bartholdi Location: Liberty Island, New York, New York Date: 1884-1886 Building Type: Monumental StatueObservational Tower Construction System: Iron Frame, Copper Cladding Climate: Temperate Island Urban-Waterfront Context: Neoclassical Realistic Sculpture Fact: An inspiring symbol of America, it was given as a gift from France in honor of the first centennial of the United States. ... The people of France gave the Statue to the people of the United States over one hundred years ago in recognition of the friendship established during t...

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But when Napoleon forced Spain to cede the Louisiana territory to France Jefferson got worried. ... The public enlightened Jefferson during the revolution and Jackson during the war of 1812. ... At this time many other southern American countries had their own revolutions and Spain was forced to take their troops out of this region. ...

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Jefferson made this statement, "I was the pen of the American Revolution, as George Washington was the sword." ... For over a month, he mourned his loss, than in November of 1784 he agreed to be a commissioner to France. ...

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And in spite of the disruptions of the ensuing revolution, Jefferson noted in 1783 that he had acquired the remarkable total of 2,640 volumes. When he departed the following year for Europe he looked forward to greatly expanding his library, and, whenever he was not carrying out his duties as the American minister to France, he haunted the Parisian booksellers and frequently placed orders with book dealers in London and other European cities. ...

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